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At a recent book signing Republican candidate-for-Prez Michele Bachmann was “confronted” by a young boy – 8 year old Elijah – who obviously forced her into a stunned moment of silence by shyly whispering “My mommy is gay and doesn’t need fixing.”

For a while there, Herman Cain was a front-runner in the Republican race for the White House despite his many documented instances that proved with no uncertainty that he should never, ever be President. What does that say about the American public; are we just realizing this NOW, or did no one care to begin with?

Unnerving violence is being committed against American citizens who are calling to task the promise of their Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly. What does the Obama administration make of all this?

Newt’s vision of changing the “culture of poverty” in America includes, ironically, perpetuating the plight of the country’s poorest classes by eliminating child labor laws and instead begin worker exploitation at a very young age.

Even when called out on the empty-rhetoric-fueled advocacy of torture, Bachmann’s nihilistic view of militarism and national security are in direct contrast to the views of virtually every learned-experience expert on the subject.

In a New York Times op-ed, author and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeffrey D. Sachs, contend that the Occupy Wall Street movement is perhaps a sign of the end-times for the nation’s gold-plated 1% who have benefited from its 30-year Reagan era.

In what may perhaps be seen as a telling milestone in voters’ acknowledgement of base-less, Right wing hysteria, social conservative initiatives presented at the ballots this past Election Day just got axed.

Lacking substance with regard to real, tangible issues affecting Americans today, the Republican party is pushing full-steam-ahead on social conservatism that often preys on the gay community; invoking age-old prejudices within their base to fire up the ballot boxes come 2012.

In direct contrast to its “power to the people” meme, the Tea Party is seemingly more interested in working to undermine the Obama administration’s efforts toward economic recovery while tossing American would-be-workers to the wayside.

As we enter an election year – and a rather big one at that – the Right wing is arming to the teeth with pro-domionist, anti-science propaganda; intent on riding the climate denialist horse either into the ground or to the White House – whichever comes first.